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July 31, 2000 |
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 Gone Potty Mumbai book-sellers have never seen anything like it. Hundreds of fans reserved their copy weeks before the first shipment while others queued up as soon as they hit the shelves. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth instalment in her series about a child wizard, is the hottest thing since Arundhati Roy -- Penguin reporting natiowide sales of 10,000 copies in the first two weeks itself. "The reception is magnificent," says Binny Mehta of Crossword book store that has placed more orders after the initial 500 copies sold out. Twelve-year-old Swapneil Parikh, who has read the first three, had his father buy him a copy in Singapore: "I must be the first person in Mumbai to get it," he says. But he's not allowed to read it till his exams are over. And the suspense is killing. -Anupama Chopra
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